Day: January 5, 2011

Background:
We have just created one or two new WordPress pages using wp-admin – say an “About” page and a “Resume” page. You’ve done all the work to write up all the content, and format it properly and when you publish, the pages look fantastic!

Problem:
The About and Resume pages have web addresses that look like this: http://www.cabanalabs.com?page_id=99
This is all well and good, but no one is going to remember that our resume is sitting at page_id=99. It would be much more desirable if someone could just type in: http://www.cabanalabs.com/resume

A simple solution, if you are running a newer version of Apache as your web server:
Assuming that we have administrative access to our apache server, and know where our VirtualHost file is, possibly in the /etc/apache2/sites-available/ directory. If you don’t – then stop right here and get a hold of your system administrator! He may have a better solution to this than what you see here :-)..

Modify the VirtualHost for our blog’s domain so that it would include a RewriteRule that would allow someone to then go to the simpler address, http://www.seevishal.com/resume, and reroute them to the correct WordPress page, which in this case would be http://www.seevishal.com?page_id99.